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Politics of the body gender in a neoliberal and neoconservative age /
The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academics and feminists have defended powerful men accused of sex crimes, positioned topless pictures in the tabloids as empowering, and opposed them for sexualizing breasts and un...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, England ; Malden, Massachusetts :
Polity Press,
2014.
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1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) |
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| Online Access: | Prospector EBC - Click here for access |
Contents:
- Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism: Framing the Politics of the Body; 2 Sexual Violence and the Politics of Victimhood; 3 Gender and Islam in a Neoconservative World; 4 The Commodified Politics of the Sex Industry; 5 The New Reproductive Regimes of Truth; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.